In The Lion King Scar doesn't just kill Mufasa, he also betrays Simba so he can rule the Pride Lands. In the movie's climax, he and Simba come head-to-head after Scar reveals that he was the one ...

I hung the movie’s poster on my dorm-room wall, and to this day, The Lion King represents my last gasp of childhood. So imagine my shock when I was recently forced to ask myself a grown-up existential ...

Still, Mufasa: The Lion King doesn’t have a scene where Mufasa works against his brother’s wishes. On the contrary! So, turning into a homicidal maniac is not the appropriate response.

“Mufasa: The Lion King” is a prequel to the animated 1994 movie and its 2019 remake. Directed by Barry Jenkins and featuring songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the film traces how Mufasa came to be ...

Scar says something very telling when Mufasa asks why he betrayed him: that he stole his destiny, and after this movie you realize that is the truth. The Lion King was meant to be Scar; he had the ...

Before Simba, there was Mufasa, and his and Scar’s story gets told in Disney’s prequel film Mufasa: The Lion King following the 2019 live-action version of the beloved animated 1994 classic ...

The movie is using the same photorealistic animation style as the 2019 "Lion King", with Aaron Pierre voicing young Mufasa, and Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Taka (who - fun fact - later becomes Scar ...

UPDATE 3/11/2025: Mufasa: The Lion King will begin streaming on Disney+ on March 26, 2025. Mufasa: The Lion King will likely stream on Disney+ in the next month or so, because it is a Disney movie.

Guests can also take home stars of “Mufasa: The Lion King”— with plush versions of Mufasa and Taka on DisneyStore.comor in Disney Parks. More in Entertainment ...

Right now, “Mufasa: The Lion King” is only playing in theaters, so the only way to watch the movie is to buy a movie ticket. But the film will eventually be streaming on Disney+ .